I attended a meeting on the need for global infrastructure investments the other day. One of the speakers said, “If corruption were an industry, it...

On the plane to Sydney, Australia, this week, I took to reading Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s The Time Regulation Institute (1961). I had time; the flight...

Cooperation does not seem on the table from this date onward, either. That’s why Turkey has to get used to living within its means A large part of...

It was in the Bloomberg Businessweek the other day...

Of the 30 billion dollar Iraqi exports, a third is from Turkey. Gaziantep alone provides around a fifth of Iraq’s imports. So Iraq by itself is...

Turkey is going to elect its 12th president this year, with the election’s first round to be held on August 10. The first 11 of our presidents were...

Turkey suffered the highest reduction in GDP growth rate and more than doubled the average loss in output among Argentina, Brazil, China, India,...

Can you solve a problem by not naming it? That is how the Kurdish reconciliation process has been managed so far. Now, a new draft law on the issue...

When Egyptians was flooding to Tahrir Square, I was fascinated with the Arab Spring. Like many others, I too wrote in praise of the movement at the...

Can a city be defined by fakery? Here I am not talking about politics, which can easily be added to the list when talking about ultimate fakes. I am...